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Lot 806 Dα

A Meissen porcelain box from the royal court kitchens

Auction 1220 - overview Cologne
19.05.2023, 10:00 - Silver Porcelain Faience
Estimate: 3.000 € - 4.000 €
Result: 4.284 € (incl. premium)
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A Meissen porcelain box from the royal court kitchens

With original lid and artichoke finial. Decorated with red dragons and circling fenghuang birds. Blue crossed swords mark, purple mark K.H.K. With a chip to the inner rim of the box, localised retouches to the gilding. H 7.4, W 10.6 cm.
Around 1736 - 39.

Julia Weber mentions an invoice from 1st December 1736, which, in addition to the dinner service, proves the existence of a tea, coffee and chocolate service in the Royal Court Confectionery. Deliveries to the royal court kitchen, on the other hand, are not documented. It was not until after the death of August III in 1763 that an inventory of the former Royal Court Kitchen was compiled. It contained over 700 pieces of porcelain with the Red Dragon design.

Provenance

Private collection, Westphalia, acquired in 1973 from Hans H. Mischell, Cologne.

Literature

For the form cf. Rückert, Meissener Porzellan 1710 - 1810, Munich 1966, cat. no. 318 f., described in Kaendler's taxa as both "Zucker Doße" and "Butter Büchße".
For the decoration, cf. Weber, Meissener Porzellane mit Dekoren nach ostasiatischen Vorbildern, vol. II, Munich 2013, pp. 246 ff, cat. no. 243.